Release of former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva reinvigorates the struggling left
Supporters of former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva gather outside the Federal Police headquarters where the former leader is imprisoned in Curitiba, Brazil,
Late Thursday, the Supreme Court overturned a rule requiring convicted criminals to go to jail after losing their first appeal.Those convicts would remain free until they had exhausted their rights to appeal -- a process critics say could take years in cases involving people able to afford expensive lawyers.
He was sentenced to almost 13 years in jail in February in a separate corruption case and still faces another half dozen corruption trials. "If all the others did worse and are free, why not him too?" said Eleonora Cintra, a 74-year-old resident of Sao Paulo. Justice Minister Sergio Moro, who convicted Lula when he was a judge in 2017, said the Supreme Court's decision must be respected, but he noted "Congress can modify the Constitution or the law" to allow the jailing of convicted criminals after their first appeal.
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